It is Groundhog D-day: a study of bafflement and frustration and disillusion ... with technical panache and sensual texture of images and soun “Thank God,” says an exultant marine at the end of this ...

After a slew of Vietnam movies exploding with blood and guts, “Jarhead” slows the hard-hitting action down and opens a doorway to a different aspect of war.Based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by ...

There’s plenty of heavy metal in “Jarhead” – tanks, guns, grenades, bullets and bombers – but just as important is the heavy meta: self-awareness.Without the allusions and references, “Jarhead” would ...

The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...

(CNN) -- "Jarhead," a blow-by-blow first-person account of the Persian Gulf War, is far less compelling than Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name on which the movie is based. By carefully ...

There’s plenty of heavy metal in “Jarhead” – tanks, guns, grenades, bullets and bombers – but just as important is the heavy meta: Self-awareness.Without the allusions and references, “Jarhead” would ...

Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Jarhead” author Anthony Swofford on Wednesday slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for blocking military promotions from ...

Author and UC Davis graduate Anthony Swofford is scheduled to give two readings at his alma mater on May 24: one from Jarhead, his Marine Corps memoir, and the other from his recently published first ...